sub-fonds GB 0117 MS 69 - Newton; Sir; Isaac (1642-1727): Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

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Newton; Sir; Isaac (1642-1727): Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

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Isaac Newton was born, 1642; Education: Grantham Grammar School; Trinity College, Cambridge; BA (1665), MA (1668); Career: Left Cambridge because of the plague and spent two years at Woolsthorpe, where he did most of the work later published in the 'Principia Mathematica' and 'Opticks' (1665-1667); Fellow of Trinity (1667-death); Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge (1669-1701); MP for Cambridge University (1689, 1701); Warden of the Mint (1696); Master of the Mint (1699-death); Commissioner for Assessment for Cambridge, Cambridge University and Lincolnshire (1689-1690); acknowledged throughout Europe as a great scientist, philosopher and mathematician, he was involved in bitter controversies with Robert Hooke (FRS 1663), with Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (FRS 1673) over the calculus and with John Flamsteed (FRS 1677) over the publication of his astronomical observations; his body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster; Benefactor to the chapels of Christ's and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge and to Addenbrooke's Hospital; Fellow of the Royal Society, (1672); President of the Royal Society, (1703-1727); Royal Society Council (1697, 1699); died, 1727.

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GB 0117 MS 69 1685 Sub-fonds 2 volumes Newton , Sir , Isaac , 1642-1727 , Knight , physicist and mathematician

Halley , Edmond , 1656-1742 , astronomer

Isaac Newton was born, 1642; Education: Grantham Grammar School; Trinity College, Cambridge; BA (1665), MA (1668); Career: Left Cambridge because of the plague and spent two years at Woolsthorpe, where he did most of the work later published in the 'Principia Mathematica' and 'Opticks' (1665-1667); Fellow of Trinity (1667-death); Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge (1669-1701); MP for Cambridge University (1689, 1701); Warden of the Mint (1696); Master of the Mint (1699-death); Commissioner for Assessment for Cambridge, Cambridge University and Lincolnshire (1689-1690); acknowledged throughout Europe as a great scientist, philosopher and mathematician, he was involved in bitter controversies with Robert Hooke (FRS 1663), with Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (FRS 1673) over the calculus and with John Flamsteed (FRS 1677) over the publication of his astronomical observations; his body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster; Benefactor to the chapels of Christ's and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge and to Addenbrooke's Hospital; Fellow of the Royal Society, (1672); President of the Royal Society, (1703-1727); Royal Society Council (1697, 1699); died, 1727.

Manuscript volume of 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica', by Isaac Newton. Manuscript written out by Humphrey Newton, Isaac Newton's assistant and amanuensis, and annotated by Newton and Halley. Manuscript from which the First Edition was printed.

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Paper, leather bound in two volumes (originally one volume, two volumes after re-binding).

Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Feb 2009. Newton , Sir , Isaac , 1642-1727 , Knight , physicist and mathematician Mathematics Halley , Edmond , 1656-1742 , astronomer

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Manuscript volume of 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica', by Isaac Newton. Manuscript written out by Humphrey Newton, Isaac Newton's assistant and amanuensis, and annotated by Newton and Halley. Manuscript from which the First Edition was printed.

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